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The world’s first extreme metal cruise, Barge to Hell, featuring 40 bands of extreme metal’s best bands is set to depart from Miami, Florida on December 3, 2012 for Nassau, Bahamas and back on December 7, 2012. Tickets are now on sale. The luxury cruise will feature two performances from each band on three different stages, karaoke, and more.

BELPHEGOR have established themselves as prolific songwriters, as they keep pumping out albums year after year, and 2011 is no exception. Unfortunately, this can be a pitfall for some bands, as churning out albums every year can take a toll on songwriting and incorporating fresh ideas.

The band is flawless in their execution, as Blood Magick Necromance has a clean and polished production, but the album leaves a lot to be desired. Nothing stands out that the band hasn’t done before, and sadly, the songs on the first half of the album can be interchangeable with any of the songs found on their last few releases. Sure, the music sounds good with blasts, double bass, and DEICIDE-like dual vocals, but it sounds all too similar. “Rise to Fall and Fall to Rise” sounds like an IMMORTAL B-side, with the album remaining uninspired until the last few tracks. “Impaled Upon the Tongue of Satan” finally delivers some catchy riffs with memorable song structures, while “Possessed Burning Eyes” captures headbang inducing guitar work. The final track, “Sado Messiah,” is an all out assault, with blistering blast beats and aggression that provides fodder to garner interest to the blackened death metal audience.

Blood Magick Necromance fails to deliver anything new or exciting to the table, and while BELPHEGOR consistently write good albums, they have never achieved writing a great album from start to finish. What you see is what you get with the band, and BELPHEGOR would have been better suited taking the best songs from this album and releasing an EP instead. (Nuclear Blast Records)

On October 27th, 2009, Indie Recordings will be releasing VREID‘s Milorg in North America with distribution and marketing duties handled by The End Records. Praised by both fans and critics across Europe, Milorg showcases a unique sound that fuses dark atmospheric sounds with raw, aggressive rock-infused black metal.

Born out of the ashes of the mighty WINDIR, VREID made an impact on the European metal scene, yet it wasn’t until 2007’s I Krig that the band took it to the next level by incorporating elements of Norwegian folk music and 70’s classic rock, while still keeping their Norwegian metal roots intact.. To accompany the release of Milorg, VREID are taking their mind-blowing live show to U.S. shores in November as part of Heathenfest with ELUVEITE, BELPHEGOR, ALESTORM, and KIVIMETSAN DRUIDI, dates are listed below.

With Hordes of Chaos (the follow-up to 2003’s ultra-successful Enemy of God), KREATOR delivers ten tracks of pure unadulterated thrash metal like only the true masters can. Long known for often incorporating lyrics that confront political hypocrisy and inhumanity, our current world climate provides a natural well of inspiration for guitarist, vocalist and bandleader Mille Petrozza. “The global political situation has come apart at the seams. The Eastern and Western Blocs no longer exists, today it’s a case of dog eat dog.” Petrozza considers the album’s furious finale (featuring the songs “To The Afterborn,” “Corpses Of Liberty,” and “Demon Prince“) “a warning to the coming generation. Everybody has to go their own path in life and should try not to buy into the propaganda lies that governments feed us.”

Hordes of Chaos was recorded at Berlin’s Tritonus Studios under the direction of producer Moses Schneider. Schneider is renowned for his fresh and exceptionally dynamic working methods with a variety of cutting-edge, successful artists across Europe. “We consciously decided on Moses as our producer for the live recording of the basic tracks at the studio,” Petrozza explains. “This was the first time since Pleasure to Kill that we worked in this way. The new album is a 100% realistic reflection of KREATOR‘s live qualities. Instead of exploring every little detail to sterile perfection with the help of computer technology, this time around we wanted to deliver as dynamic a production as possible. There can be no doubt that we’ve achieved our target in Hordes of Chaos. The album was mixed in London by Colin Richardson.

The Hordes of Chaos world tour kicks off in early 2009, with a six-week trek across North America in place for April. KREATOR will be joined by fellow thrash metal pioneers EXODUS in what will undoubtedly be one of the premier metal events of 2009!

KREATORHordes of Chaos North American Tour 2009
with EXODUS, BELPHEGOR, WARBRINGER and EPICUREAN:

The Austrian blackened/death metal machine, BELPHEGOR, will be returning to the U.S. this February with ROTTING CHRIST, IMMOLATION and AVERSE SIFERA for the â€œLucifer Over North Americaâ€ Tour. Vocalist/guitarist, Helmuth, had to this to say about what could be the most blasphemous paring of bands in quite sometime:

â€œItâ€™s an honor for us to return to U.S. shores! The last two runs were beyond fucking amazing and we had such a good time there. Thanks to First Row Talent and Nuclear Blast Records for bringing BELPHEGOR over again. IÂ´m sure this whole tour will exceed our expectations yet again. Hail Chaos – Hail Satan!â€

BELPHEGOR recently entered Andy Classen‘s Stage One Studios in Kassel, Germany to begin recording their new album for an April 11, 2008 European release via Nuclear Blast Records (April 15 in North America). The follow-up to 2006’s Pestapokalypse VI is being recorded in three separate sessions lasting through the middle of January 2008.

Swedish death metal veterans, UNLEASHED, will make their long awaited return to America next February on their Midvinterblot North American Tour 2007. Supporting the band will be KRISIUN, BELPHEGOR, and HATESPHERE.

THE HAUNTED and BELPHEGOR have been added to Glen Danzig‘s Blackest of the Black tour featuring DANZIG and Italy’s LACUNA COIL. The 2006 edition of Blackest of the Black is tentatively a West Coast-only tour for two weeks in November. Dates to be announced.